Improvement in privy-seat covers



UNITED STATES WILLIAM STREET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRlVY-SEAT COVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,121, dated October 17, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM STREET, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Privy-Seat Cover; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled iu the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which- Figure lis a top view of my improved seat cover, illustrating two styles of the hinges. Fig. 2 is a side view of my improved seat-cover raised. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken through the line w fr, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention has for its object to improve the construction of privy-seat covers, so that when open they may have the upper side of the seat-cover turned forward, so that any dampness or frost that may collect upon the lower side of said seat-cover may be turned away from the person using the seat; and it consists in the construction and combination of the various parts of the seat-cover, as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the privy-seat, about the construction of which there is nothing new. B are the covers, to the opposite side edges of which are pivoted the outer ends of the arms C of the hinges. The inner or rear ends of the straps or arms C are pivoted to lugs D attached to the seat A. The lugs D may be attached to the plane surface of the seat A, as shown in Figs. l and 3, or to a mold- `may be a leather strap or a metallic handle.

ing running along the rear edges of the covers B, as shown in Figs. l and 2. In the latter case the lower edge of the rear part of the arms G should be notched to correspond with the form of the molding, or should be inclined upward so that the forward parts of said arms may lie snugly along' the edges of the covers B a-nd the sur face of the` seat A. To the upper sides of the covers B should be attached handles E, which In either case the handle E should be so formed as to lie closely along the surface of the covers B, so as not to be in the way when the said covers are turned back.

By this construction when the covers B are turned back they are raised and moved back, their rear edges being raised the highest, so that they will take the position shown in Fig. 2 with their upper sides forward, the lower or damp side of the cover being thus turned back.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with privy-seat A, cover B, pivoted to an arm, O, and on each side thereof', which arln is itself pivoted to the seat A, for the purpose of enabling the bottom side to be turned from the person of the sitter.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 12th day of April, 1871.

. WILLIAM STREET. 

